Towards the construction of a Geospatial system for Khartoum State Police

نحو بناء نظام جيومكاني لشرطة ولاية الخرطوم

Abstract

This paper aimed to define the structure and working nature of Khartoum State Police. It also highlights the importance of developing a support geospatial system for the police devices to help take security decisions. It also explains the steps of developing and building a geospatial system with multiple powers, which serves employees and customers of Khartoum State Police. This study applied the descriptive and inductive approaches and analyzed data using spatial analytical tools, which Geographical Information Systems software (ArcGIS10.7) supports. ArcGIS10.7 is used in the applied aspects of the study. The most notable result which the study came to is that GIS technologies has an optimum importance in developing and enhancing police activities for employees and stakeholders equally. The study recommended that the computer systems of Khartoum State Police should be updated by linking the proposed system to the Khartoum State Police Home page on the Internet to serve as a transition to e-government.